Friday, September 24, 2010

San Antonio Railroad Ghost Children

San Juan Mission in south San Antonio, Texas
A picture of San Juan Mission in San Antonio, Texas
Not far from the San Juan Mission is an intersection that is crossed by railroad tracks. This is supposedly the site of a fetal accident where a train collided with a school bus full of children that got stuck on the tracks in the 1930s of 1940s.
According to this legend, it was a rainy day when the train moved swiftly along the tracks and the engineer spied a school bus stalled on the tracks. He pulled the breaks and blew the whistle but kept on moving fast towards the bus, unable to stop in time. A bus driver and ten children died that day and still haunt the place, protecting others from a similar fate.
If you park your car over the tracks and shift into neutral, the ghosts of the children will push it uphill away from any oncoming train. If you also put flour or baby powder on your bumper, you will supposedly see the children's fingerprints.
People don't know for certain if this story is true but many believe that cars do get pushed and their are mysterious fingerprints that appear. Others say they hear the children's laughter and voices near the tracks.
   However, there are no records of any such accident having ever occurred in the newspaper archives. Such a horrible accident that big would have to be recorded somewhere. Wouldn't it?

1 comment:

  1. That is creepy dude! wow! Never going there in my lifetime haha.

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